Articles & Tutorials

Direct Share is a new feature in Android Marshmallow that allows users to share content to targets, such as contacts, within other apps.

Artem Zin's passionate essay on all things quality in Android development.

Truth is an assertion/proposition framework appropriate for testing and driven by some extensibility needs. Jeremie Martinez shows how to use it via several examples.

Sebastiano Poggi introduces some login features (including the new Smart Lock) that you can use in your apps.

By default Gradle just silently runs unit test suite w/o communicating progress. Here's a tip to make gradle indicate what test is being executed.

Google has pushed Android Studio 2.0 Preview 3 to the canary channel. This build contains a large number of bug fixes, along with a few notable changes.

With the latest release of Google Play services, Google has made some enhancements to the Smart Lock for Passwords API to help you sign up new users or sign existing users in more quickly.

This is the second part of how we could refactor the Plaid app open sourced by Nick Butcher. In this part we are going to enhance the MVP architecture described in the first part to become truly reactive.

This article will introduce you to a few Android or Java libraries and tell you how they’ve changed Android development for the author.

With the arrival of hardware such as fingerprint scanners arriving on devices, there are some new much more user-friendly mechanisms that we can use for authentication. In this series Mark Allison continues to explore how to implement these within our apps.

David Karnok looks at the new and mysterious rx.Completable class. It has been merged into the 1.x branch (in @Experimental fashion) and will most likely be part of RxJava 1.1.1.

In this blog post Pedro Vicente Gómez Sánchez will share how his story, the Karumi testing story, started several years ago. This is the first blog post of a series where he will cover all aspects of world-class testing development pipeline for Android.

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Libraries & Code

Permission helper for Android M that is able to check a permission in the background and monitor it in case it get revoked.

Tacklytics is an annotation based analytic tools aggregator with using Aspect Oriented Programming to track events and crashes. It basically collects all analytic/tracking tools together and provide a simple and clean solution without polluting your code base.

Rx methods to get a File and Image or Video thumbnails from any DocumentProvider on Android (Drive, Dropbox, Photos etc)

A LayoutManager to be used with RecyclerView -- When list is scrolled views are moved by circular trajectory.

Scoop is a micro framework for building view based modular Android applications

Tools

An early preview of the new Android Emulator (with enhanced speed, performance and usability) is now available to try out.

Videos & Podcasts

Using Kotlin for Android development has grown in popularity over the last year. This talk by Jake Wharton will cover advancing the usage and design patterns of the language for Android development to solve larger problems.

Caching is the computing principle to rule them all. In this video, Joanna Smith explains why caching counts, in case you don’t believe her yet.

Jesse Wilson takes a quick look at what JNI is, how it works, and how you can use it to be awesome.

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Google Cardboard brings virtual reality to the masses. How to develop for Cardboard? What does the SDK provide? Android GDE Etienne Caron shares his experience, plus his favorite Cardboard apps.